David Chesky's whole new thing! + A FREE audiophile sampler 

WOW! I just noticed this Chesky character could easily pass for Steve's younger/older brother. Did anyone else notice this? No disrespect intended. Just something I noticed.

no CD'S????????? dang it i dont do downloads

Thank you David Chesky for fighting to save kids from consuming mp3s with earbuds-by championing high resolution music. And dude, you look like me in 1996-with that awesome long hair. Keep it long !

I love listening to people who think outside the box. David should do a TED Talk.

Listening to David is riveting . . . also, I am grateful to finally learn that I shouldn’t be eating corn flakes all the time! 😀. Steve, this interview was fantastic. thanks!

Downloaded the file. Unfortunately, the music kind of sucks. Aayushi Karnik plays a mean guitar, but her voice is unlistenable. Chesky's songs are like a oneway ticket to Snoozeville. Ode to Joy is fine, but I've heard that one before. Interesting concept, but until the material gets better, no thanks.

Like Clark Kent and Superman... has anyone ever seen David Chesky and Steve Guttenberg at the same time?

Steve good luck you weren't standing closer to your record rack ..you would have disappeared wearing that shirt....😆🙏

You didn't mention that a number of Albums/tracks are available on Qobuz. 😀

This sounds like an exciting project, count me in!!! Thank you David and Steve.

Make this with PHYSICAL formats not just files

Steve, Love your channel! Can you do a follow up interview with David Chesky? Too many unanswered questions left from this interview. Who is doing the mixing/dsp on the new recordings? What headphone amp and headphones are they using? What amp & speakers are they using. David says they will also have DSD files. DSD can not be mixed/edited in the Digital Domain and must be converted to PCM or back to analog going through an analog mixer and back to DSD. How are they handling the DSD recordings? David also talks about listening to music at home. What is his home system? I know a little over twenty years ago when I visited David he was running Lamm electronics and Verity Parsifal speakers which sounded incredible.

Thanks very much for the free high bit downloads! Plus great interview.

Cheers to the hifi pioneer precisionists. That'd be you two.

I downloaded right away...........LOVE David's orchestral work on track #3 ! I am a purest when it comes to recording and I believe in the strict principals of TRUE stereophonic recordings. As a live orchestral recording engineer myself, I am willing to 'bend' a bit and found this sampling an intriguing delight! This first listen was on my modest livingroom system. Bang & Olufsen Beosystem 6500 paired with Klipsch Reference Premier 280F towers with a small laptop as source. I look forward to hearing in the large music room with the 2.1 Martin Logan Classic 9's and all Parasound electronics. This should be even more expansive sitting some 20' back (O:

David Gilmour should be in on this. Seriously. 🤔🎶🎶👍

The first cut is excellent in the mold of Jimi Hendrix or Robin Trower instrumentally, but the vocalist was not having a good day.

great interview and great concept. I hope it works out.

I was excited until I saw it was only available on download. I need a CD version. I NEVER buy downloads. I ONLY buy CDs. I have a number of Chesky CDs.

Download complete! I own LOTS of Chesky recordings going WAY back. My favorite is still Macy Gray. Thanks so much for the sampler and will certainly be buying from AS if dig the tunes (and sound quality)!

Hey David! Your Quad/streaming system is top-5 I’ve ever heard

I hope it works. Sounds gimmicky. David is a great asset, he can make it work

The Audiophile Society Sampler's headphone and speaker files are indeed optimized for each environment. Not only are they tailored for each use, but the music sounds coherent and 'out of the box' exciting. Well done!

This is exciting. I’m looking forward to walking in my living room “amongst” the musicians! Pretty cool 😎 Can’t wait to hear the download, thanks guys!

Thanks Steve , i think that is the kind of sound that Borresen speakers brand is trying to accomplish , according what i see in some videos, some relatively small speakers produce a huge and involving spund experience as you are in the 1st row or closer to the performers. Of an event

Great idea. I am downloading the sampler. David's proclamation of audiophilia resonates. I love to listen to great stereo sound. Even more than the particular love of the musical composition. And I have had that experience where the concert time finally arrived, and I scrambled to get there after days on planes. I show up tired, used and not in the mood. I recall once sitting in the second balcony sitting sideways because my legs were too long to squeeze into the seat. Let me go home.

So this sounds like ‘expansive stereo’ and probably what ‘Spatial Audio’ should be but isn’t. The rub I have with spatial is that, while immersive, it’s not natural to be encircled by musicians and have the sound/instruments come at you from every direction. It might be fun and interesting to a point, but I think David’s take is the more natural and realistic way to go - Stereo e x p a n d e d.

Thelma Houston's, I Got the Music In Me, ... likely my all time fave reference track. As SNL's Stefon would say; it's got everything... clean tight transient drive ... that builds and builds, solid bass, great drums, topped with an incomparable vocal performance climaxing in a tight, well under 3min performance. The toms are quite the standout to me, well rounded big clear tone, as is her powerfully sustaining vocal, demanding a systems midband. That track at realistically live levels on a highly capable rig, elicits the same response every time, ... Wow! Damn! Exhilarating every time. The clean dynamics just beg for more and more level.

I really admire the enthusiasm and persistence of audiophiles which includes not only the users but the manufacturers, the reviewers, everyone else who is absorbed. They will go to no end to get what they want. And yet after 60 years of my own interest I've yet to meet a single person in this industry who had even remotely close skills to understand the problem of high fidelity sound recording and reproduction let alone a concept to solve it. If you were to draw a functional block diagram of the cheapest 1958 portable stereo system and the most expensive advanced audiophile system today they would be identical. Stereo signal source, stereo preamplifier, two channels of power amplifiers, two speakers, and wires to connect it all together. Every element refined countless times and ways, cost no object. Then why does it always fail? It's not the equipment that's flawed or the recording technique. It's the concept that's flawed. You don't need to be a golden ears audiophile to notice the difference instantly between a recording of music and the real thing heard live, especially at a large concert venue. They are that different. The more live music you've heard and had drummed into your head, the more obvious and disappointing the recorded sound is. Advice to people in this industry. Go to a lot of live concerts of unamplified music. Stop hitting your head against a brick wall that won't budge and stand back. Your headache will go away and if you throw away everything you think you know and start from scratch you might just see a way around the wall or over the wall as I did. Now a warning. This is NOT an easy problem. It requires a lot of science, engineering, and mathematics to understand.

Chesky is a good musician and deserves to be noticed. Check out those hands.

"connection is not private". Modern computer system software won't let me shop on David's site to buy anything.

This is just the best. You and David are just wonderful.

I just discovered Thelma Houston, Wow! Thank you Steve...

Hi David this sound great, particularly the part about giving new and young artists a leg in the door. I love the idea of a 120 degree sound stage, as well as a new take on stereo. This is a little bit like what Paul M at PS Audio is trying to do with “Octave Records” by taking conventional stereo recording to its audiophile limits. David seems to be thinking outside the stereo box with a more contemporary and new twist. Good luck with it and I cannot wait to see and hear where it goes. Thanks to Steve for getting it out there,

Wow!! What a great interview of an amazing person. Thank you 🙏

Well, as a matter of fact, there are audiophiles buying 7 or 9 very expensive finals, McIntosh usually.

Back in the late 90s, I went on a Chesky CD binge as a twenty-something audiophile. I'm so excited about this new project and wish David the best of luck! We need a new paradigm capturing recorded music, and this could be the revolution to get us to the next step closer to the real thing!

The Audio Industry needs more David Chesky types but there will be only ONE David Chesky.

Can you imagine the conversations with say, Elvis…I know you’re cutting this for your Momma’s birthday, but how are you doing on Soundcloud? Or Jerry Lee…how many views are you getting on RU-vid? Music is such a weird beast now.

Chesky is a scam, downloadrates are 0 Kb/s. And they don't respond on the multiple mails I did send. Paying is not a problem on there website, delivering is !

This sounds like something for me but Why do I have to give my Credit Card info for the FREE sampler???

Sounds like he is bringing the Klang system used in the pro market to hifi. Could be interesting...

Amazing interview. Thanks for posting it

Ok I’m about 2/3rds through and Chesky is describing his new dsp generated sound. The description of the wider and deeper out into the room sound sounds just like what my Klipschorns and good tube system do already. Especially with good recordings, his included.

I dont have faith in the headphone mix. They sound so vastly different, even more different than speakers - in my opinion, so mixing on average headphone like hd600 will make it great for that headphone, but better headphones might sound worse than with the speaker mix. I would suggest dark and bright mix instead, or more fun mix and more realistic one. If i listen to Stripped by Macy Gray, it comes out as if im really there, using beyer dt48 A, but if i play something that went trough processing, it becomes this fake, plasticky 2d mess, so David going dsp and all effects really doesnt excite me one bit. Mind you that new headphones sound bad with Chesky recordings, better than compressed ones, but still not even close when compared to something like dt48A or good speakers

*David the Sound of Chesky Audiophile Reinvents Recordings*

Couldn't help but notice the poster on the wall to the right of David. HIL IAC. Curious is the there are 4 lines altogether with the top two lines reading AUD IOP ???

The wholestory rests on whether they were room dividers or real speakers...By the way, Philiac Steve nice bird on your left...

Caught the first half of this before heading to the music room at 6:45am to listen to Hayden on Maggies.... I liked David's audiophile confession. Listening to music at home is like watching a play on TV when you want to, not when it's convenient for the actors! I'll check out part 2 later, but it sounds interesting. Thanks guys! 🎶🤫🎶

I downloaded the free sample music and within the 1st 10 seconds of the 1st track I knew that I would be a lifelong customer of

So how are you going to produce/ record this amazing 3 dimensional sound? DSP is no more an answer than God will find a way... and yes I believe in God.

Listening to Graffiti Jazz on Quboz and it threw my little bedroom system threw the roof- nothing like it has come out before

Very interesting stuff...not just more gimmicks but actually innovative

Is this software based? I was looking into bacch-so which takes cross talk out of the musics to create a more immersive experience

"If I really want to hear music I Iisten at home". I know what he means but I'm not sure I agree. This guy is fascinating. Thanks for this, Steve.

I design speakers and his recordings is what I use for a reference and it makes them sound amazing. I want to send you some speakers to review btw Steve. I made some monsters

I bought the album on display and are now listning to "Aayushi Karnik", witch I think is great. The sound is also great and very dynamic.

The passion 👊

FM-8 🙂

With all respect I thought to me self " Steve looks different today"

Still you missed one thing Steve; what is David’s home system of the moment ????

I've no idea why you chose to go black and white with this installment, but i really like it..

Wow..Some really big ideas! Thanks Steve.

It sounds like Yello had mixed this on speakers. Wow. Wish I had some headphones to try the headphone mixes

that sounds great. also love the 10 dollar offer and the free sampler which i am downloading right now.

Headphone mix, that's cool. Gonna check this out.

Just DLed files... Thanks Steve & David !

Totally cool. Who doesn't want to ride the wave? I do.

What a cool guy. I hope it works out for him. It sounds cool

I met this guy back in the early 90's in Sydney.

He's on to something here. DSP -- the math is the medium.

Nice interview with David. I have quite a few albums from the Chesky label. That Thelma Houston / Pressure Cooker album is a brilliant album - a Sheffield Lab limited edition vinyl release back in the 70's. Along with the Harry Jmes and Lincoln Mayorga and Friends albums, it is highly prized by audiophiles and collectors. Sheffield were the pioneers of the direct to disc process. Amazing albums, amazing sound - have 6 of the original vinyl series and some of the CD releases.

Dang, they could be brothers.

What’s that dirt under your lip Steve?

Next step do it analog instead!😎😎

Aayushi can't sing but she can play guitar

So much respect for Mr. Chesky.

@ 4:00 is Exactly why this hobby is worth it

Loving the sound of this, very interesting, can't wait to hear it

You guys are the same person

I can't watch youtube anymore. They're out of control with the bombardment of ads.

This is my second look at this video and I've already downloaded the sampler album and the bought DSD/24-48 PCM Graffiti Jazz album from The Audiophile Society website and will play them tomorrow. There is only one set of DSD files in the latter so I assume they're SACD quality (DSD64). I'm really excited about this project.

Hi David, I purchased that Thema Houston LP after hearing it at Harvey Sound on 45th played on Klipsch La Scala speakers, they also played "Isn't She Lovely" a demo I will never forget. I have been hooked since. Best Regards, BW

So it's DSP and Spatial Audio but in the hands of an audiophile and musician. Sounds interesting. Look forward to listening to the sampler on speakers and cans. As someone else points out it resonates with what Paul McGowan is doing at Octave records without the DSP. I disagree a bit with what he says about 5.1 and 7.1. I think a lot of audio geeks have surround systems as well as two channel, or sometimes combined with two channel. Personally I really enjoy SACD and Blu-Ray surround mixes and even disc based Dolby Atmos if done well (see Steven Wilson).

So, i put on “ breakfast Dance and barbecue “ by count basie and his orchestra… it was a roulette offering recorded in “dynamic stereo”. When i heard it, my jaw hit the floor… it was precisely as described by mr chesky. Extremely wide, insanely deep, observably articulate sound stage. The “boys in the band” were live in my living room… and the musical chatter, musician hummings, and the distant audience comments, along with dishes clanging at the tables were all palpable. If that 1959 recording , enhanced in 2001 sounds that good… I can’t wait to hear this new technique in my room.

Were the tracks in the sample pack mastered separately for the two systems? And I am not just only talking about the perceived difference in soundstage. Different mastering was especially noticeable on the 5th track, Ode to Joy; bass volume on the headphone mix was quite noticeably higher than on the speaker mix. I didn't hear such difference in other tracks' bass frequencies Also the speaker mix sounded much more clear while the headphone version had quite noticeable reverb or echoing effect. I would say based on my listening on only headphones (HD650) that the speaker mix was more enjoyable and balanced sounding. Also the naming on the 6th and 7th tracks in the headphone mix -folder is reversed.

FYI, hrtf audio has been done with pc and console gaming since the 90s, and Dolby Headphone encoding/mixes have been around almost as long. DTS also has had hrtf tech for their surround decoders for many years, and both Dolby and DTS have significantly upgraded their surround decoders for headphones since their lossless Blu-ray multichannel codecs appeared. Yamaha, Harmon Kardon, and others also had proprietary headphone hrtf decoders built into receivers and processers since the late 90s or earlier, usually auto engaged when headphones are plugged into the receiver, defeatable. Monster of wire fame also released several Dvd music discs around 15 years ago- George Benson, Al Jarreau and others with Pre rendered Dolby headphone mixes included on the disc in addition to the 24/96 lossless PCM tracks. Several concert and movie Dvd, Blu-rays have also been released over the years with dedicated Dolby or DTS prerendered (not decoder needed) 2ch headphone tracks for an outside your head sound field experience But always room for improvement, and DSP tech has come a long way

David is spot on in his thinking.

Downloading the sampler now. Taking 6 minutes. Looking forward to it. And having another source for DSD files. Great concept.

I have had those Maggie's, well the 1 series (twice re-built) since 1978, ARC electronics, and that Thelma Houston LP as well. Rave on.

Did download the sampler sound realy good on my Vandies. Especially Paloma - Ode to Joy here voice very live like/convincing. Did play with dsp roomcorrection.

I think I've watched David play at some Jazz festival decades ago. Thanks for the free sampler! Wishing you guys much success in your endeavor. We definitely need better quality recordings today!

19:35 FINALLY🙂 and who else than David Chesky could grasp and implement it. Bravo 👏

LCR would be a fairly effective method of achieving higher quality than stereo. I'd prefer a point source for center panned material, and it'd be super easy to downmix to stereo. To be honest, 5.1 is also pretty reasonable as a standard for music.

Don’t smile much does he

"... and hearing Maggies?" Ah yes! That would do it! Perfect description of my first reations as well. At that time I would have guessed they were III's at IIIa though? That's around when I was exposed to them. But I would have been supplying Thelma as I was the rep at the time. Not much older though.

Okay, downloaded the free sample set. Other than the fact that the recordings are very good with nice SQ, I don't hear anything special - at least over 2ch speakers. I have other recordings equally as good.

Checked out the free demo. The headphone versions are more interesting than standard stereo with headphones, but if you really want an astonishing experience with music on headphones look into Impulcifer by Jaakko Pasanen. It takes some relatively modest equipment and DIY measuring to create personal BRIR files, but the results can be truly next level with any stereo recordings. In my decades long search for audiophile sound Impulcifer is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, no joke.

This is crazy exciting

Super exciting just to listen to. New folks, new input. The most simulating video for me in a long time. Not just one DAC versus another.